Quotes by Emmylou Harris

“Pretty much all I say politically is I encourage people to register to vote.”

“As citizens we have to be more thoughtful and more educated and more informed. I turn on the TV and I see these grown people screaming at each other, and I think, well, if we dont get our civility back, were in trouble.”

“With the Constitution they set something in motion that is a pretty extraordinary document and a recipe for the way you would want people to live.”

“Red Dirt Girl ,”

“In a town of writers, he really is our poet laureate,”

“I called Linda and told her that Dolly was coming over. This one evening, there was no particular reason for it.”

“[Sitting on a sofa in Harris living room, they started singing.] What you do when youre singers, ... you tend to sing, which happens very casually.”

“Hes my man and Ive been doing him wrong/And Im praying for the strength not to carry on.”

“I just adore him, ... He follows his heart. He must be pretty smart in business. He loves his life and thats a wonderful thing to see. So many people are the beneficiaries of his passion, his love for this music. I dont think theres another festival like this in the world.”

“The crazy thing is that, if you add up the actual recording time, it was less than two weeks. But Mark was so busy that I got the tracks he mixed two at a time over a period of years. It was frustrating, because I had rough mixes of all these great songs, and hed be like: Dont play them to a soul until theyre finished! I was a good girl scout, though.”

Animals have a much better attitude to life and death than we do. They know when their time has come. We are the ones that suffer when they pass, but its a healing kind of grief that enables us to deal with other griefs that are not so easy to grab hold of.